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Biography (1987–)
27 seasons355 episodes60 min per episode
Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.
- First aired
- April 6, 1987
- Network
- CBS, A&E
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Seasons
Season 115 episodes · 1987- 2Season 23 episodes · 1992
- 3Season 381 episodes
Season 48 episodes- 5Season 532 episodes · 1996
- 6Season 651 episodes · 1997
- 7Season 778 episodes · 1998
- 8Season 882 episodes
- 9Season 978 episodes
- 10Season 1037 episodes · 1997
- 11Season 1125 episodes · 1999
- 12Season 1237 episodes
- 13Season 1315 episodes
- 14Season 148 episodes
- 15Season 150 episodes
- 16Season 166 episodes
- 17Season 170 episodes
Season 1830 episodes- 19Season 193 episodes · 2004
- 20Season 2046 episodes · 2005
- 21Season 2126 episodes · 2006
- 22Season 222 episodes
- 23Season 231 episode
- 24Season 2421 episodes · 2011
- 25Season 2522 episodes
- 26Season 263 episodes
- 27Season 271 episode
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Cast
- Jack Perkins as Self - Host
- Jack Perkins as Self - Narrator
- Jack Perkins as Narrator
- Peter Graves as Self - Host
- Peter Graves as Narrator
- Peter Graves as Self
- Harry Smith as Self - Host
- Harry Smith as Self - Narrator
- Harry Smith as Narrator
- Robert J. Thompson as Self
- Robert J. Thompson as Self - Syracuse Univ Professor
- Robert J. Thompson as Self - Professor
- Bill Mumy as Self - Narrator
- Bill Mumy as Self
- Bill Mumy as Self - Host
- Gary T. Carlin as Narrator
- Gary T. Carlin as Self - Narrator
- Dave Hoffman as Narrator
- Roddy McDowall as Self
- Roddy McDowall as Self - Actor
- Roddy McDowall as Friend
- David Wild as Self
- David Wild as Self - 'Rolling Stone'
- David Wild as Self - Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
- Matt Roush as Self
- Matt Roush as Self - TV Guide
- Matt Roush as Self - Television Critic